Reviews for your pets and children and more. We enjoy an active, adrenaline filled life with our young daughter, bengal cats and dogs. I am a keen photographer and videographer.

Thursday, 19 July 2012

Tricolour Cupcakes Attempt Two

So I decided that I would be using this method for the day and I didn’t have a practice first!

For the cupcakes:

150g (5oz) butter, softened

150g (5oz) caster sugar

100g (3½oz) self-raising flour

2 level tablespoons cocoa powder

3 medium eggs

2 tablespoons milk

Few drops of vanilla extract

For the frosting:

75g/3ox marg/butter

175g/7oz Icing sugar

good slug of Baileys

Oven - gas mark 5 or 190°C or 170°C fan. 15 – 18mins

I divided the frosting into three bowls and coloured then red and blue and left the other plain. This method involves four piping bags! Put each colour into separate piping bags without a tip attached. Then flatten the icing in the bags so that they all fit in another piping bag with the tip attached.

It was tricky to keep an even pressure and not squeeze too much of the one colour so I just had to continuously push the icing down the bags. Otherwise I didn't waste any icing like the last lot and I got the result I was looking for. Am just dissappointed in the cases which have gone a bit floppy - need to stick with foil perhaps.

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A young techie family enjoying anything from family days out to adrenaline sports. Reviewing products and days out hoping to help others. Breeding beautiful bengal cats who we are totally besotted with as well as competing in dog agility.